Socket
noun
A place where you can plug in something like a bulb or cable.
He plugged the lamp into the wall socket.
Often appears as...
- wall socket
- socket outlet
noun
The hole into which an eye or a tooth fits.
His eye was removed from its socket.
Often appears as...
- eye socket
- tooth socket
noun
Part of a tool where another part fits into.
The ratchet fits into the socket of the wrench.
Often appears as...
- wrench socket
- socket set
noun
A device that receives and sends data over a network.
The server is ready to accept socket connections.
Often appears as...
- socket connections
- socket programming
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Technical
noun
A place where you can plug in something like a bulb or cable.
He plugged the lamp into the wall socket.
Often appears as...
- wall socket
- socket outlet
noun
The hole into which an eye or a tooth fits.
His eye was removed from its socket.
Often appears as...
- eye socket
- tooth socket
noun
Part of a tool where another part fits into.
The ratchet fits into the socket of the wrench.
Often appears as...
- wrench socket
- socket set
noun
A device that receives and sends data over a network.
The server is ready to accept socket connections.
Often appears as...
- socket connections
- socket programming
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Electricity Source
Refers to a point where electrical devices connect to a power supply.
Make sure the electric kettle's cord reaches the kitchen socket.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Precaution
Used cautiously to avoid electrical shock or fire hazards.
Children are taught not to play with wall sockets.
Pro Tip 3/3Plug Compatibility
Must match the plug's shape and voltage to function properly.
The US socket does not fit European plugs without an adapter.
Pro Tip 1/3Electricity Source
Refers to a point where electrical devices connect to a power supply.
Make sure the electric kettle's cord reaches the kitchen socket.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Precaution
Used cautiously to avoid electrical shock or fire hazards.
Children are taught not to play with wall sockets.
Pro Tip 3/3Plug Compatibility
Must match the plug's shape and voltage to function properly.
The US socket does not fit European plugs without an adapter.
Pro Tip 1/3Electricity Source
Refers to a point where electrical devices connect to a power supply.
Make sure the electric kettle's cord reaches the kitchen socket.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Precaution
Used cautiously to avoid electrical shock or fire hazards.
Children are taught not to play with wall sockets.
Pro Tip 3/3Plug Compatibility
Must match the plug's shape and voltage to function properly.
The US socket does not fit European plugs without an adapter.
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How to decarbonize the...
It sounds like a tax we keep on paying. Yeah, it is. It is. You sin once, you pay forever. And then the third element of it being a wicked problem is that carbon dioxide is embedded in every aspect of our industrial economy. Every car, and every truck, and every airplane, and every house, and every electrical socket, and every industrial processes
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Jeff Bezos: The...
a fact we were unaware of, until after the miserable wretches turned beneath the hooves of our cavalcade. The eyeless sockets of the pack animals everywhere account for the myriads of ravens along the road. The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone,
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
serving time for armed robbery his wife says that's no excuse for what happened it was a traffic violation come they just couldn't arrest him and give him some kind of fine or something I'd had to beat the mess out of them like that doctor said that he suffered a concussion one of his eye sockets was
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The big impact of small...
solar energy systems and several villages as you can see from the illustration that seems to have gone down well with the local population and when yawa for example the school building now is lighting and power sockets allowing the students you see to here to study in the evenings I would
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Encouraging A New-Born...
third digit it's on a ball and socket joint so it can go all the way around that's normal and they tap this extremely extremely fast and then the reverberations of the sound they can detect the differences in density of the material that they're tapping on and that's
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Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
knew there was a coelacanth and the rivers there and he said no and I said well one day I was watching and studying and fiddling with these bones and all of a sudden it came to me maybe it had no two sockets maybe had a giant trough
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David Sengeh: The sore...
one thing that deeply troubled me was that many of the amputees in the country would not use their prostheses. The reason, I would come to find out, was that their prosthetic sockets were painful because they did not fit well.
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Conjoined Twins PIPE...
they were conjoined from the outward appearance there are a few scars that only are visible if you look for them out of the socket we're still stuck together that'll be kind of weird like my life would be like huh you wouldn't
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The effects of...
Sometimes when a fish is reeled up to the surface it will appear inflated, with its eyes bulging out of their sockets and its stomach projecting out of its mouth,
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Aimee Mullins: Changing...
like I said, and I've got to make sure I've got the right socket. No, I've got so many legs in here. These are -- do you want to hold that actually?
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How to decarbonize the...
It sounds like a tax we keep on paying. Yeah, it is. It is. You sin once, you pay forever. And then the third element of it being a wicked problem is that carbon dioxide is embedded in every aspect of our industrial economy. Every car, and every truck, and every airplane, and every house, and every electrical socket, and every industrial processes
Video examples
Jeff Bezos: The...
a fact we were unaware of, until after the miserable wretches turned beneath the hooves of our cavalcade. The eyeless sockets of the pack animals everywhere account for the myriads of ravens along the road. The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone,
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
serving time for armed robbery his wife says that's no excuse for what happened it was a traffic violation come they just couldn't arrest him and give him some kind of fine or something I'd had to beat the mess out of them like that doctor said that he suffered a concussion one of his eye sockets was
Video examples
The big impact of small...
solar energy systems and several villages as you can see from the illustration that seems to have gone down well with the local population and when yawa for example the school building now is lighting and power sockets allowing the students you see to here to study in the evenings I would
Video examples
Encouraging A New-Born...
third digit it's on a ball and socket joint so it can go all the way around that's normal and they tap this extremely extremely fast and then the reverberations of the sound they can detect the differences in density of the material that they're tapping on and that's
Video examples
Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
knew there was a coelacanth and the rivers there and he said no and I said well one day I was watching and studying and fiddling with these bones and all of a sudden it came to me maybe it had no two sockets maybe had a giant trough
Video examples
David Sengeh: The sore...
one thing that deeply troubled me was that many of the amputees in the country would not use their prostheses. The reason, I would come to find out, was that their prosthetic sockets were painful because they did not fit well.
Video examples
Conjoined Twins PIPE...
they were conjoined from the outward appearance there are a few scars that only are visible if you look for them out of the socket we're still stuck together that'll be kind of weird like my life would be like huh you wouldn't
Video examples
The effects of...
Sometimes when a fish is reeled up to the surface it will appear inflated, with its eyes bulging out of their sockets and its stomach projecting out of its mouth,
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Aimee Mullins: Changing...
like I said, and I've got to make sure I've got the right socket. No, I've got so many legs in here. These are -- do you want to hold that actually?
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Iman
Somali Model
On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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George Vecsey
American Author
I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.
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Stacy Keach
American Actor
As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
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Dustin Poirier
American Athlete
They had to re-shape the head of my femur back round. They had to trim my hip socket up a little bit. I had a lot of extra bone growth just from years of stressing it out. Because of that bone growth, it caused an impingement in my hip, which tore my labrum off the bone.
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Oksana Masters
American Athlete
I wear my prosthetics legs every day, and when I train in the gym, I call them my Lamborghini, because both legs and sockets, which extend up to my hips to keep the legs on via a suction seal, cost about $305,815.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Chita Rivera
Puerto Rican Actress
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
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Sean Evans
American Entertainer
As the flagrant foul's official mascot, Anthony Mason had the genteel refinement of an intentional elbow to the eye socket.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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The Undertaker
American Wrestler
I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.
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Iman
Somali Model
On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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George Vecsey
American Author
I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.
Quote examples
Stacy Keach
American Actor
As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
Quote examples
Dustin Poirier
American Athlete
They had to re-shape the head of my femur back round. They had to trim my hip socket up a little bit. I had a lot of extra bone growth just from years of stressing it out. Because of that bone growth, it caused an impingement in my hip, which tore my labrum off the bone.
Quote examples
Oksana Masters
American Athlete
I wear my prosthetics legs every day, and when I train in the gym, I call them my Lamborghini, because both legs and sockets, which extend up to my hips to keep the legs on via a suction seal, cost about $305,815.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Quote examples
Chita Rivera
Puerto Rican Actress
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.
Quote examples
Sean Evans
American Entertainer
As the flagrant foul's official mascot, Anthony Mason had the genteel refinement of an intentional elbow to the eye socket.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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The Undertaker
American Wrestler
I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.
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